15 June 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Boas, UCCL 11814)
Your letter is come, & we thank you heartily for that alluring invitation, but we are leaving to-day for New York; & we leave New York tomorrowⒶemendation morning at 9.15, in a special sleeping-car, which I hired & have caused to be attached to the train because Mrs. Clemens needs to lie down a good deal, & the children need to spread around for comfort’s sake on so long a trip. We rech reach Elmira at half past 6 p. m.
Everything’s in a state of rush, to-day, preparatory to departure. With warmest regards of all hands to you & Mrs Whitmore & your family, I am
F. G. Whitmore, Esq | Montowese House | Branford | Conn postmarked: hartford conn. jun 15 12m
References
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS facsimile, Norman F. Boas of Seaport Autographs.
MicroPUL, reel 1.